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Diablo 3 Beta [Beta withdrawal underway!]
- Thread starter maniac-kun
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You can still drop items and other players will see them - trading is just the secure way to do it as both parties have to agree.
Id love for someone to explain to me what exactly the purpose of all that crafting was? Didnt seem like he was making any money or getting more items from it... Was he simply searching for a superior item?
Burger
Member
Reposted for new page. These are the preloads for the retail client.
Windows
en-GB
en-US
en-SG
German
Spanish-ES
French
Italian
Polish
Taiwan Mandarin
Korean
Spanish-MX
Portugese
OS X
en-US
en-GB
en-SG
German
French
* Clicking on install will give you the message: 'The fire from the sky still falls. Diablo III has not yet launched.'
** I believe the OS X links are universal (my copy has a Diablo III Setup.exe in addition to the OS X version)
Windows
en-GB
en-US
en-SG
German
Spanish-ES
French
Italian
Polish
Taiwan Mandarin
Korean
Spanish-MX
Portugese
OS X
en-US
en-GB
en-SG
German
French
* Clicking on install will give you the message: 'The fire from the sky still falls. Diablo III has not yet launched.'
** I believe the OS X links are universal (my copy has a Diablo III Setup.exe in addition to the OS X version)
Last day of beta ;P
Did you find any good items from it or did you not care?
You mean D1-style. There was a trade window in D2.
Right... I guess I forgot about it because I never used it.
I got that once when I'd run it twice on accident and there was a lingering launcher process in my task manager. killing it worked.
That seems to be a pretty common error. The preload worked for me using Burger's links.
I didn't know that it was P2P though. Checked my upload data and sure enough; over 2gb. Glad I'm not in a country that bills by usage.
Burger
Member
Make sure these ports are open:
http://us.battle.net/support/en/article/diablo-iii-network-ports-information
I hope an unverified account is good enough to take in paypal payments from the RMAH and then spend that money elsewhere. Paypal doesn't like that my bank account is tied to a Paypal account they put in one of those awful "give us every piece of private information you have or your account remains locked" states.
I'll probably get a couple bucks in there before they try to pull the same stunt with this account.
I'll probably get a couple bucks in there before they try to pull the same stunt with this account.
I got the CE on Amazon today and got free release date delivery, using prime.
BolognaOni
Member
I've had my Paypal account tied to a bank account that I closed about 5 years ago. I have thought about adding another one, but haven't ever needed to. Apparently they have not caught on to this fact yet, but I'm waiting for it to happen.
I'm thinking if I do any RMAH I'll just keep the money in bnet. Unless it ends up being some kind of meaningful sum... Sort of sucks that they apparently don't let you pay WoW subscription fees with it though.
FrontalMonk
Banned
really? I thought one of the benefits of the whole "Battle.net balance" thing was being able to do this very thing.
BolognaOni
Member
I know, right? Here's a link to their FAQ on the subject. Note that WoW game time is absent from the list of stuff you can buy.
Also in the same boat. Luckily, there was a thread about this earlier with lots of people weighing in.
I'm personally waiting for a Steelseries Sensei RAW because I love the old style Microsoft Intellimouse. For some reason, no other company can copy it and improve upon it. I'm still wary of steelseries as some people have mention their software is buggy, butI figure it they remove the processor/LCD screen there shouldn't be that much more room to mess up their mouse.
If you can't wait, Frys has the G500 for $40 after rebate in store in which lots of people in the thread I linked have praised
OR if you want a cheap Chinese disposable mouse, MCSaite USB Mouse - Like a Logitech G400 for $8.00 or Razer Deathadder knockoff for $13.00
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Yeah I was just checking that. Quite unfortunate really - they implied before that you could buy WoW game time with the Battle.net balance. You could still pay for it via cashing out, but you're taking quite a hit to do so.
I'd be surprised if it's in honestly. I have a feeling it won't be until the the console version is getting put together and then it gets patched in.
kyubajin
Member
Could anyone from mainland Europe that has used Amazon UK Prime enlighten me?
I live in Spain and have the CE pre-ordered since March. Since Amazon UK does not offer release day delivery, will I sorta get it if I try the free month of Amazon Prime? There's an option that says I can get anything home the next day from purchase for £4.99 or something, I'd be willing to pay that for the CE
I live in Spain and have the CE pre-ordered since March. Since Amazon UK does not offer release day delivery, will I sorta get it if I try the free month of Amazon Prime? There's an option that says I can get anything home the next day from purchase for £4.99 or something, I'd be willing to pay that for the CE
BolognaOni
Member
I'm hoping the policy changes, or that's an oversight. I suppose you could bank enough to hopefully pay for MoP, or HoS, if that's allowed.
I would think there would be large appeal for more "casual" RMAH sellers to sell, say, $5 worth of stuff in a month and put it towards a WoW sub, but maybe they have decided that's not in their best interest right now, figuring it's lost revenue one way or the other. Personally I sort of detest paypal, so I'm not interested in cashing out at all and would rather keep it in gold. I also really doubt I am going to want a WoW sub after D3 is out, which is why I passed on the annual pass, but if I could get one at a discount, I'd likely boot it up again at some point.
I expect we are going to see the policies change somewhat in the months following release as they kind of figure things out. At least I hope so. It's a new business model for them, so a bit of experimentation is warranted, I'd say.
I would think there would be large appeal for more "casual" RMAH sellers to sell, say, $5 worth of stuff in a month and put it towards a WoW sub, but maybe they have decided that's not in their best interest right now, figuring it's lost revenue one way or the other. Personally I sort of detest paypal, so I'm not interested in cashing out at all and would rather keep it in gold. I also really doubt I am going to want a WoW sub after D3 is out, which is why I passed on the annual pass, but if I could get one at a discount, I'd likely boot it up again at some point.
I expect we are going to see the policies change somewhat in the months following release as they kind of figure things out. At least I hope so. It's a new business model for them, so a bit of experimentation is warranted, I'd say.
It's probably so they can hit you with double fees, since you can cash out to paypal and then pay your WoW time with paypal, you're taking a second 15% cash out fee in that scenario, so it benefits them.
Pretty clever (and fucked up) of them. I'm guessing this is what most people would be using the money for.
They said they're working on it for the PC version? I really doubt it'll get patched in. When discussing the possibility of a console version at Blizzcon, they made a big deal about tailoring the game so it can be as good as possible for a console experience. To me that translates to changes to the UI and maybe difficulty balance adjustments to accommodate the different controls, stuff like that. It'd be impressive if all you had to do was plug in the 360 controller and suddenly the game had all the changes of the console version.
Could anyone from mainland Europe that has used Amazon UK Prime enlighten me?
I live in Spain and have the CE pre-ordered since March. Since Amazon UK does not offer release day delivery, will I sorta get it if I try the free month of Amazon Prime? There's an option that says I can get anything home the next day from purchase for £4.99 or something, I'd be willing to pay that for the CE
I'm living in Germany and whenever I order vom .co.uk I get my stuff from german warhouses. But I don't know how it is in Spain and how "good" your return policy, infrastructure and so on is.
I allready asked this yesterday. What do you guys think of Inferno? They are marketing it like crazy and to be honest ... I don't think Blizz would ever lie THAT much.
While I'm sure they don't exactly mind that, I doubt it's quite so malicious as all that. It's more likely a deliberate attempt to discourage people from using a one-time-cost game (Diablo3) to farm their way to free ongoing monthly-fee WoW. Because then they'd essentially be paying themselves for you to play.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Oh God.
helloresolven
Member
During my month of the beta, I only experienced really bad lag once. Other than that I hovered around latency of 70-140ms.
Working for me. Just started it up and it hung out for a few min then started up.
BolognaOni
Member
I think you're right, but I also expect we'll see some experimentation with it. In general, I suppose it's hard to tell which would drive more overall sales volume on the RMAH. Since the whole economy is player created, how much supply do you want? Do you want to encourage people to post as many auctions as possible? Given that you make fees on each transaction, I would think so. The fact that one fee structure is a flat per auction, and the other percentage based really makes it hard to tell though... For gear, a bunch of low cost sales would be way more profit than only a few big ones. For "commodities" it's only total sales volume that matters.
Overall, I don't see how not allowing people to pay for WoW with RMAH is win for them, since that would be a huge reason to participate in RMTs, but I'm sure they have numbers that say otherwise (granted, those numbers must be wildly speculative at this point).
FieryBalrog
Member
Like some of their other game systems, they're probably erring on the side of caution for now (possible exploit! WoW loses sub money!) but may open it up in the future.
I'd prefer it if they did, but I feel like most of any money I make would just be funneled back into D3 to get items.
I'd prefer it if they did, but I feel like most of any money I make would just be funneled back into D3 to get items.
sorijealut
Member
At end of beta May 1.
So confusing...!
Someone help me out with this one. What's a "flair"?
So confusing...!
It was non existant today.
Just joking, the beta has officially ended. I hadn't experienced any moments of extreme lag for many months.
helloresolven
Member
Flair is a reddit feature, where in a given subreddit you can put a piece of "flair" next to your posts (think tag + avatar from GAF). r/diablo has predefined flair for each of the classes, that you can pick from.
Presumably people are choosing their flair based on their favorite class and they are making a graph of that.
I don't think so, it'd be more along the lines of someone else paying you to play via RMAH. They supply the money, you supply the pixels, and blizzard supplies the means to do so.
They still get their money, just indirectly.
Pixel Pete
Member
which one?
Zero Hero
Member
I can just put in my DVD key and not worry about the disk at all, correct?
CarbonatedFalcon
Member
Yes. All modern Blizzard games are account based.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Hahahaha
Pixel Pete
Member
You do make me think about the story though. I'm looking forward to it, but I'm also torn.
Take Skyrim for example. I could not have sunk 250hours into that game if I weren't playing solo, as I like to explore and read and experience the story. Having 3 other people along for the ride will be bags of fun, but will be a hassle to slow down and enjoy the story.
But then again, it depends on how Blizzard designed it. There may be a lot more 'on the run' story (like the lore) and ingame cutscenes like (beta spoiler)
Leoric's ghostly death
Fair enough.
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